Whether you are new to WIDA or need a refresher, this is the page for you!
Here are many links, Ppts from PDs, and links to useful tools.
Introduction to WIDA as interpreted by John | "Success Breeds Success" Leveling Up | Link to WIDA Archive | WIDA Rubrics | Can Do Descriptors | Link to Progress Monitoring Tools | | WIDA-BASED Exemplars -- Name that Level!

Introduction to WIDA as interpreted by John

WIDA 101 -- or "Now WIDA, Now What?"

This is John talking through a presentation on "WIDA basics"
that we tend to give at Professional Developments.
This is the starting point for working with WIDA.

*If you click on the little rectangle on the lower right corner of the video,
it will play in full screen mode
-- making it easier to see (albeit a little blurrier).

Here's the PowerPoint from the video with no narration
-- I guess this would be the "karaoke version."

Here's the link for the W-APT materials
-- but they're on the incredibly annoying-to-get-to MPS Google Apps space
-- so (a) only MPS people can access them,
and (b) only the most persistent among MPS folks.
https://sites.google.com/a/mpls.k12.mn.us/ell2/w-apt

MPS teachers: if you can't reach the MPS Google Apps site,
referred to above and work through these documents --->




"Success Breeds Success" Leveling Up


"Success Breeds Success": Leveling Up, ELD, and Easy Wins.
A video I did with suggestions on how to support
English Language Proficiency growth for MPS students.
(It's 16 minutes long, but sixteen minutes that fly by ...)


This is the document you've been looking for!
Annual WIDA Proficiency-Level Growth Rates broken down by GRADE
CLUSTER and by WIDA LEVEL. (From a WIDA publication ongrowth and
the W-ACCESS. This is the document we've all been looking for!

Annual WIDA Proficiency-Level Growth Rates

Link to WIDA Archive

Aug 2012 Ppt that accompanied Mylou's WIDA ACCESS
results presentation


WIDA Rubrics

The Speaking and Writing Rubrics from the W-ACCESS training materials
WIDA Home Page with Search Function



Can Do Descriptors

WIDA Can-do descriptors PDFs
Student-friendly" Can-Do Descriptors for all grade clusters
MPLS/ESL WIDA-based Student-Friendly Can-Do Descriptors (Word File)

MPLS/ESL WIDA-based Student-Friendly Can-Do Descriptors (PDF)




Spanish versions of the Student-Friendly Can-Do Descriptors
for the first three grade clusters
Spanish Student-Friendly Can-Do Descriptors [Word file]

Spanish Student-Friendly Can-Do Descriptors [PDF file]



Link to Progress Monitoring Tools


WIDA-BASED Exemplars -- Name that Level!

John and Rita performing an academic task in Spanish. (We explain the concept of "theme" and give examples.)
Using the CVC Criteria, where would you place their WIDA Levels?



Use the CVC Criteria to evaluate our "academic Spanish" WIDA Speaking levels.
Our task was to explain the literary concept of "theme" and give examples.

Your task is to use the CVC Criteria to assess Rita, John and Emily in their academic Spanish.
  • Based on the CVC Criteria below, what WIDA Level would each of them be at?
  • For each, which criteria or criteria would you focus on in supporting them to "level up"? Who needs work on Complexity? On Vocabulary? On Control?

Rita on Tema
John on Tema
Emily on Tema